Abstract: Firstly, the paper presents some location methods based on the received signal strength identification(RSSI) and scene fingerprinting in ZigBee network. Secondly, the article proposes a location method—RSS scene fingerprint location which integrates the two positioning methods above. The method uses received signal strength identification as fingerprinting to establish fingerprint database, and then to determine the mobile station’s location with KNN matching algorithm. The experiment results demonstrate the validity of location estimation, with high precision, strong adaptability and fault tolerance, which has the characteristic of low-cost, low power consumption and easy to implementation.

Key words: ZigBee technology, wireless location, RSS, scene fingerprinting